Cash Flow Planner vs PlanSense
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cash Flow Planner
This personal finance app helps you track income and expenses with ease. You can record one-time and recurring transactions, create custom categories, and set budgets and income targets. Get a clear overview of your finances and manage your money effectively.
- Track income and expenses
- Record recurring transactions
- Create custom categories
- Set budgets for expenses
- Set income targets
- iCloud data sync
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Cash Flow Planner is a simple personal finance app that helps you track your income and expenses, plan ahead, and stay in control of your finances. Features: • Add one-time and recurring transactions • Organize transactions using custom categories • Create budgets for your expenses • Set income targets • Explore and filter transactions • Track trends with charts • Securely sync and back up your data with iCloud Start using Cash Flow Planner today and take control of your hard-earned money.
PlanSense
This app offers a futuristic calendar, a quick finance tracker, and a multi-page journal with drawing capabilities. It aims to simplify various aspects of personal management in one place.
- Futuristic calendar
- Quick finance tracker
- Multi-page journal
- Drawing pad functionality
- Personal management tools
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Customizable planner with an iOS Calendar, Outlook Calendar, and Google Calendar integration.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cash Flow Planner at none against PlanSense's 15. Cash Flow Planner also leads on ratings volume (305 vs 17). PlanSense's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 48 months) and review sentiment (92% vs 76%). On price, rating, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. PlanSense sells 15 one-off in-app purchases. Cash Flow Planner asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Cash Flow Planner against 4.5 for PlanSense. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cash Flow Planner has 305 ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 76% of Cash Flow Planner's written reviews are positive against 92% of PlanSense's.
Cash Flow Planner ships an update every 48 months, PlanSense every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cash Flow Planner | PlanSense |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (305 ratings) — better | 4.5 (17 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.6% of reviews | 91.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 305 — better | 17 |
| Update frequency | Every 48 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Erik Wegener | Ryan James |
Customer experience
Cash Flow Planner
PlanSense
Bugs and requests
Cash Flow Planner
Reported bugs
4 issues- Text unreadable in dark mode
- Font disappears when adding/changing categories
- Math drops cents to lower dollar amount
- Filter feature does not show relevant transactions
Requested features
16 requests- Option to adjust background color
- Reports by week or month
- Analytical tools (pie charts, graphs)
- Print document option
- Ability to adjust font color
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- Notes feature for categories
- Recurring expenses with weekly/bi-monthly option
- Ability to click on categories for breakdown
- Carry balances forward monthly
- Trend reports
- Ability to split expenses across categories
- More options or icons
- Homepage shows budget to the penny
- Alert on abnormal expenses
- Vendor info
- Comparison of expenses to last month
PlanSense
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Cash Flow Planner
No in-app purchases
PlanSense
- Plan Refactor$0.99
- Donut Plans$0.99
- Payment Change$1.99
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- Workout Change$1.99
- Costs Change$1.99
- Purchase Change$1.99
- Reading Change$1.99
- Practice Change$1.99
- Savings Change$1.99
- EventRefactor$1.99
- Meeting Refactor$1.99
- Lines Refactor$1.99
- Special Occasions$1.99
- ApptRefactor$1.99
- Goal Refactor$1.99
